Obituaries 9-30-2020: Jimmie Gaither
Jimmie Gaither Jimmie D. Gaither, 78, of Sullivan, passed away 12:13 p.m. Friday, September 25, 2020 at his home in Sullivan. … Read More
Lovington Library Board Petitions
•September 30, 2020• Petitions for the Lovington Library board are available until December 21, 2020 for pick up at the Lovington Public Library during open hours, Monday 9-7, Tuesday – Friday 9-12 & 2-5, Saturday 9-12, for anyone interested in being a candidate. … Read More
Okaw Valley’s Bailey Bennett Earns Medalist Honors At Triangular Meet
•September 30, 2020• By Jason Brown NP Sports The Okaw Valley boys’ and girls’ golf teams competed in the triangular meet at Eagle Creek Golf Course Thursday, Sept. 24. For the Okaw Valley girls’ golf team, Bailey Bennett’s hole-in-one on the eighth hole helped earn her medalist honors with the low score of 49, a season best. “I joked with Bailey after her seventh hole of the evening,” Fultz said. “I said, ‘You are not playing bad at all, and let’s set a goal. If you par out (seven between the next two holes) you finish with your best score … Read More
Moultrie Moment of the Week
Obituaries 9-30-2020: David Coe
David Coe David L. Coe, 65, passed away at 12:13 a.m. Sunday in the Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center, Mattoon. Celebration of Life services will be 11:00 a.m. Thursday in the Reed Funeral Home, Sullivan with Pastor Joel Ruppert officiating. Visitation will be Thursday from 10:00 a.m. until service time. Burial will be in the Bolin Cemetery, Sullivan with military honors provided by Scott Air Force Base. Memorials are suggested to New Life Pregnancy, Decatur. Online condolences may be sent to the family at reedfuneralhome.net. Please practice social distancing and wear face masks for the visitation and service. … Read More
New Business
Great Pumpkin Patch 2020
What is aqua-based cremation?
•September 30, 2020• By Jim Baumann The story pitch went a little something like this: “A new business is seeking permission from the village board to open an aqua-based crematorium. As proposed, human and animal remains would be cremated by a water-based solution, as opposed to the more commonly known flame-based method.” Well, that’s a story I simply must read. During my days at Prospect High School, I was unknown by most of the student body, except my cadre of nerds, a few sympathetic athletes and those who desperately wanted to copy my chemistry homework. I enjoyed surreptitious chemistry experiments … Read More
Letter to the Editor 9-30-2020
Dear Editor, My girlfriend Leona and I parked at the old root beer stand west of Sullivan expecting Vice President Nixon and his wife. As they came by we waved at them and they waved back from the convertible they were riding in. … Read More
Family History Discovered While Looking Through a Magazine
•September 30, 2020• By Jerry Ginther NP Guest Writer Not many years ago, while browsing the Internet looking through agricultural magazines, I unexpectedly came across some family history. Actually, I was searching for an idea, food for thought that I might expand on for an article I could write for a paper or magazine. There were plenty of farms and farmers on both sides of our family, so why wouldn’t there be some aspect of the industry I could relate to, possibly more than one. Well, that isn’t the general topic that stopped my search almost at its inception. In … Read More